Dental hospital IT systems gets funding

8th October 2008

Dental hospitals across England are set to receive an extra £11 million of funding for new IT systems that will support the training of dental students.

The funding is part of a joint initiative by the Department of Health, NHS Connecting for Health and the Dental IT programme board and will be divided between 10 trusts with responsibility for training dental students that applied for the money. The trusts will use the money to train dental students in the use of clinical computer programmes.